Health consequences of the 'Great Recession' on the employed: evidence from an industrial cohort in aluminum manufacturing.

ABSTRACT: While the negative effects of unemployment have been well studied, the consequences of layoffs and downsizing for those who remain employed are less well understood. This study uses human resources and health claims data from a large multi-site fully insured aluminum company to explore the health consequences of downsizing on the remaining workforce. We exploit the variation in the timing and intensity of layoff to categorize 30 plants as high or low layoff plants. Next, we select a stably employed cohort of workers with history of health insurance going back to 2006 to 1) describe the selection process into layoff and 2) explore the association between the severity of plant level layoffs and the incidence of four chronic conditions in the remaining workforce. We examine four health outcom

SUBMITTER: Modrek S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3783210 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature